goldfish_pipe: Pass physical addresses to the device if supported
For reading and writing guest user space buffers, currently the kernel sends the guest virtual address of the buffer to the pipe device. This virtual address has to be first converted to a guest physical address. Doing this translation on the QEMU side is inefficient and requires additional handling when KVM is enabled, whose implementation would either incur intrusive changes to QEMU's KVM support code or suffer from poor performance, see commit 08c7228c50f8 ("x86-kvm: only sync SREGS when doing address translation") of $AOSP/external/qemu for details, and thus should be avoided if possible. There is a TODO comment in hw/misc/android_pipe.c in the new Android emulator source tree ($AOSP/external/qemu-android) which requests that the translation be done on the kernel side and that physical addresses be passed to the device instead of virtual ones. Once the QEMU-side implementation is done, the kernel will need to support both the new paddr-based pipe device and the old vaddr-based one (which will continue to be used by the classic emulator). This patch achieves that by leveraging the device version register available in the new device. See https://android-review.googlesource.com/128280 for the QEMU-side patch. In addition, use the mmap semaphore (in read mode) to safeguard the call to get_user_pages(). Signed-off-by: Yu Ning <yu.ning@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jin Qian <jinqian@android.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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